Across the World with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson (1930)
• February 1st, 1930 • 0h 0min
Documentary
Overview
As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, the Johnsons describe their trip across the world, which begins in the South Pacific islands of Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, the Solomons (where they seek and find cannibals), and New Hebrides. Thence on to Africa via the Indian Ocean, Suez Canal, North Africa, and the Nile River to lion country in Tanganyika. (They are briefly joined in Khartum by George Eastman and Dr. Al Kayser.) Taking a safari in the Congo, the Johnsons see animals and pygmies, and travel back to Uganda, British East Africa, and Kenya.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Memory Books
Released on: 2008-05-01
Documentary
In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...
Deep Water: The Real Story
Released on: 2016-10-16
Documentary
In the 1980s and 1990s a wave of murders bloodied the idyllic coastline of Sydney’s eastern suburbs....
Riding Giants
Released on: 2004-07-09
Documentary
Riding Giants is story about big wave surfers who have become heroes and legends in their sport. Dir...
The Enclave
Released on: 2013-06-11
Documentary, War
Commissioned for the Irish representation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, The Enclave is an imm...
Cosmis Flows: The Cartographers of the Universe
Released on: 2019-04-04
Documentary, TV Movie
Man has always sought to seek further afield. After the seafaring explorers of the 16th century, 21s...
Undercurrents: Meditations on Power
Released on: 2023-08-06
Documentary
Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker’s archive and other found materia...
Kumu Hina
Released on: 2014-06-22
Documentary
A transgender Native Hawaiian teacher inspires a young girl to fulfill her destiny of leading the sc...
Whiteley
Released on: 2017-05-11
Documentary
A visual journey into the life and legacy of one of Australia's most celebrated artists, Brett White...
The MacArthur Facade
Released on: 2024-01-26
Documentary
An amateur documentary crew dive into a growing opioid epidemic within Australia's Capital only to d...
Memories of Australia
Released on: 1943-06-20
Documentary
This Traveltalk series short visits Australia.
British Settler Life in Kenya
Released on: 1944-09-01
Documentary
This 1944 black and white silent film provides brief glimpses of the lifestyle among Kenya's white/E...
Loyal to My Image
Released on: 1992-04-10
Documentary, TV Movie
Through one woman's experience as an adopted person and also as a mother who relinquished her child ...
Smile
Released on: 2018-10-10
Documentary
A heartwarming exploration of a community art project by photographer Tawfik Elgazzar providing free...
Song from the Forest
Released on: 2014-09-11
Documentary
25 years ago, Louis Sarno, an American, heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the C...
Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege
Released on: 2005-12-31
Documentary
Although the mountain volcano Mauna Kea last erupted around 4,000 years ago, it is still hot today, ...
Over Hawaii
Released on: 2011-01-01
Documentary
Go to the Big Island and hover above erupting craters at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, watch flowi...
The Donner Party
Released on: 1992-10-28
Documentary, History
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and ...
95 and 6 to Go
Released on: 2016-10-22
Documentary
Filmmaker Kimi Takesue captures the cadence of daily life for Grandpa Tom, a retired postal worker b...